Sobering data about physician mortality.
My mom fought her way out of poverty to become a physician dying at 47 yo of a rare blood cancer.
“Black female physicians had higher mortality rates than all other physician subgroups and White female individuals in non–health care occupations.”
My mom fought her way out of poverty to become a physician dying at 47 yo of a rare blood cancer.
“Black female physicians had higher mortality rates than all other physician subgroups and White female individuals in non–health care occupations.”
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The doctors said her DNA looked like she had been exposed to heavy doses of radiation, but it was likely due to stress, trauma and weathering of being a Black woman in medicine, in this country.
The cancer she had - usually people in their 70-80s get.